Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Oliver Colvile and Rehman Chishti

Wednesday 9th March 2016 Commons Chamber

[Oliver Colvile (Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) (Con)]

1. What steps the Government are taking to ensure that people from all social backgrounds can progress in the civil service.

[Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham) (Con)]

2. What steps the Government are taking to ensure that people from all social backgrounds can progress in the civil service.

[The Minister for Civil Society (Mr Rob Wilson)]

We want to ensure that the civil service is fully representative of the nation it serves and benefits from the widest pool of talent in our communities and from every part of Britain. We have made considerable strides to increase diversity already, and we will shortly publish our strategy for social mobility, in which we will set out how we will further increase social diversity in the civil service.